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Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0968-0896Verify ISSN ↗1464-3391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,960 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical Science | 64 / 191 | 66th | Q2 |
| Organic Chemistry | 76 / 215 | 64th | Q2 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 49 / 124 | 60th | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 67 / 161 | 58th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 195 / 448 | 56th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 199 / 414 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 92 / 179 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is Q2 in Pharmaceutical Science (rank 64 of 191), Q2 in Organic Chemistry (rank 76 of 215) and Q2 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 49 of 124), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.582, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 198.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,960 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0968-0896 and its online ISSN is 1464-3391.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry has an h-index of 202 and a 2-year mean of 3.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 177 Scopus journals in Pharmaceutical Science.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry published 409 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 824. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (42.1%), Japan (9%) and United States (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 18 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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